DAVID BRAKKE April 2021 Department of History (614) 292-2674 The Ohio State University [email protected] 230 Annie & John Glenn Ave. 106 Dulles Hall Columbus OH 43210-1367 Academic Appointments (Permanent) Joe R. Engle Chair in the History of Christianity and Professor of History, The Ohio State University (2012– ) Courtesy Professor in Classics (2018– ) Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University (2004–2012) Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies (2008–2012) Adjunct Professor of History (2004–2012) Chair, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University (2006–2011) Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University (1999–2004) Adjunct Associate Professor of History (2002–2004) Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University (1993–1999) Academic Appointments (Visiting) Croghan Bicentennial Visiting Professor of BiBlical and Early Christian Studies, Williams College (Autumn 2015) Visiting Professor of the History of Christianity, University of Chicago Divinity School (Spring 2012) Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN (1992–1993) Teaching Areas Primary: Ancient Christianity (New Testament through 600 C.E.) Secondary: History of Christianity, Late Antiquity, Study of Religion Education Ph.D., Religious Studies, Yale University, 1992 M.A., M.Phil., Religious Studies, Yale University, 1987, 1989 M.Div., Harvard Divinity School, 1986 B.A., with highest distinction, English, University of Virginia, 1983 Vita: David Brakke, page 2 Select Grants and Fellowships (Team Project) National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarly Edition Award: Critical Edition of the Works of Shenoute, Andrew Crislip, Principal Investigator (2007–2010) Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (2002–2-03, Resumed 2008, 2010): Institut für Ägyptologie und Koptologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers (1999–2000) American Council of Learned Societies Junior Fellowship (1999–2000) PUBLICATIONS Refereed items are marked with (*). Books: Monographs The Gospel of Judas: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. Anchor Yale BiBle 45. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, in press (2022) (*). The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010 (*). Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2011. Spanish translation: Los Gnósticos: Mito, ritual y diversidad en el cristianismo primitivo. Trans. Francisco J. Molina de la Torre. Biblioteca de estudios bíblicos 140. Salamanca: Ediciones Sígueme, 2013. French translation: Les Gnostiques: Mythe, ritual et diversité au temps du christianisme primitif. Trans. Marie Chuvin. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2019. Demons and the Making of the Monk: Spiritual Combat in Early Christianity. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006 (*). Chapter 3 translated into French and published as “Le Gnostique. Évagre le Pontique.” Collectanea Cisterciensia 71 (2009): 188–222. Athanasius and the Politics of Asceticism. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1995 (*). Reprinted in paper as Athanasius and Asceticism. Baltimore/London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Books: Critical Editions and/or Translations of Ancient Works The Gnostic Scriptures. Translated with annotations and introductions By Bentley Layton. Second edition with additions and revisions By David Brakke. Anchor Yale BiBle Reference LiBrary. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021 (*). Vita: David Brakke, page 3 Shenoute the Great. Selected Discourses of Shenoute the Great: Community, Theology, and Social Conflict in Late Antique Egypt. Translated with introductions By David Brakke and Andrew Crislip. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2015 (*). Evagrius of Pontus. Talking Back: A Monastic Handbook for Combating Demons. Translation and introduction By David Brakke. Cistercian Studies 229. Trappist, Ky.: Cistercian PuBlications; Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2009 (*). Pseudo-Athanasius. On Virginity. 2 vols. Critical edition of Syriac text, translation, and introduction By David Brakke. Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 592–593 (Scriptores Syri 232–233). Leuven: Peeters, 2002 (*). Books: Edited Volumes From Gnostics to Monastics: Studies in Coptic and Early Christianity in Honor of Bentley Layton. Co-editor with Stephen J. Davis and Stephen Emmel. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 263. Leuven: Peeters, 2017. Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity. Co-editor with DeBorah Deliyannis and Edward Watts. London: Ashgate, 2012 (*). Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation: Discursive Fights over Religious Traditions in Antiquity. Co-editor with Anders-Christian JacoBsen and Jörg Ulrich. Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity 11. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2012. Critique and Apologetics: Jews, Christians and Pagans in Antiquity. Co-Editor with Anders-Christian JacoBsen and Jörg Ulrich. Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity 4. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2009. Beyond “Reception”: Mutual Influences between Antique Religion, Judaism, and Early Christianity. Co-Editor with Anders-Christian JacoBsen and Jörg Ulrich. Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity 1. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2006. Religion and the Self in Antiquity. Co-Editor with Michael L. Satlow and Steven Weitzman. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005 (*). Reading in Christian Communities: Essays on Interpretation in the Early Church. Co–Editor with Charles A. BoBertz. Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity 14. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002 (*). Journal Articles and Book Chapters “Cursing Monks: The Early Monastic Context of Two Prayers for Justice from Egypt.” Studia Patristica, in press (*). “What Difference Does the Gospel of Judas Make?” In The Discoveries of Manuscripts from Late Antiquity: Their Impact on Patristic Studies and the Contemporary World (Conference Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Patristic Studies). Ed. Patricia Ciner and Alyson Nunez. Turnhout: Brepols, in press (expected 2021). Vita: David Brakke, page 4 “Research and PuBlications in Egyptian Monasticism, 2012–2016.” In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Congress of Coptic Studies, Claremont, July 25–30, 2016. Ed. Hany Takla. Orientialia Lovaniensia Analecta. Leuven: Peeters, in press. “Holy Men and Women of the Desert.” In The Oxford Handbook of Christian Monasticism, 35–50. Ed. Bernice M. Kaczynski, with Thomas Sullivan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. “Athanasius in Alexandria.” In Christianity and Monasticism in Alexandria and the Egyptian Deserts, 23–32. Ed. Gawdat GaBra and Hany N. Takla. Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2020. “‘In the Midst of the Children’: A Proposed Reading of Gospel of Judas 33:18– 21.” Journal of Coptic Studies 22 (2020): 45–67 (*). “Heterodoxy and Monasticism around the Mediterranean Sea.” In The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West, 1:128–143. Ed. Alison I. Beach and IsaBelle Cochelin. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2020 (*). “Gnostics and their Critics.” In The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Biblical Interpretation, 383–398. Ed. Paul M. Blowers and Peter W. Martens. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019 (*). “The Gospel of Judas and the End of Sethian Gnosticism.” In Envisioning God in the Humanities: Essays on Christianity, Judaism, and Ancient Religion in Honor of Melissa Harl Sellew, 133–152. Edited By Courtney J. P. Friesen. Westar Seminar on God and the Human Future. Eugene, Or.: Cascade Books, 2018. “Coptic.” In A Companion to Late Antique Literature, 61–74. Ed. Scott McGill and Edward Watts. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018 (*). “Valentinians and their Demons: Fate, Seduction, and Deception in the Quest for Virtue.” In From Gnostics to Monastics: Studies in Coptic and Early Christianity in Honor of Bentley Layton (see aBove), 13–27. “The Relationship Between the Monks of Northern Egypt and the Patriarchs of the Egyptian Church.” In Christianity and Monasticism in Northern Egypt: Beni Suef, Giza, and the Nile Delta, 11–20. Ed. Gawdat GaBra and Hany Takla. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2017. “Pseudonymity, Gnosis, and the Self in Gnostic Literature.” Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies 2 (2017): 194–211 (*). “Early Christian Lies and the Lying Liars Who Wrote Them: Bart Ehrman’s Forgery and Counterforgery.” Journal of Religion 96 (2016): 378–390. “Shenoute and the Jews.” In Coptic Society, Literature and Religion from Late Antiquity to Modern Times: Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Coptic Studies, Rome, September 17th–22nd, 2012, 945–952. Ed. P. Buzi, A. Camplani, and F. Contardi. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta. Leuven: Peeters, 2016 (*). Vita: David Brakke, page 5 “Macarius’s Quest and Ours: Literary Sources for Early Monasticism.” Cistercian Studies Quarterly 48 (2013): 239–251. “Reading the New Testament and Transforming the Self in Evagrius of Pontus.” In Asceticism and Exegesis in Early Christianity: The Reception of New Testament Texts in Ancient Ascetic Discourses, 284–299. Ed. Hans-Ulrich Weidemann. Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus/Studien zur Umwelt des Neuen Testaments 101. Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2013. “Scriptural Practices in Early Christianity: Towards a New History of the New Testament Canon.” In Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation: Discursive Fights over Religious Traditions in Antiquity